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THOUGHT OF THE DAY
9/1/21
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Nelson Mandela
9/2/21
"Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile." - Mother Teresa
9/3/21
"What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun." - Cicero
9/4/21
"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." - Abraham Lincoln
9/5/21
"Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all." - George Washington
9/6/21
"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." - Bertrand Russell
9/7/21
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence." - Louis Pasteur
9/8/21
"Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you." - Diana, Princess of Wales
9/9/21
"There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words." - Thomas Reid
9/10/21
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. My optimism, then, does not rest on the absence of evil, but on a glad belief in the preponderance of good and a willing effort always to cooperate with the good, that it may prevail. I try to increase the power God has given me to see the best in everything and every one, and make that Best a part of my life." - Helen Keller
9/11/21
“If we learn nothing else from this tragedy, we learn that life is short and there is no time for hate.” - Sandy Dahl, wife of Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl, in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in 2002
9/12/21
"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better." - J. K. Rowling
9/13/21
"One of the strongest characteristics of genius is—the power of lighting its own fire." - John W. Foster
9/14/21
"Balance your thoughts with action. — If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." - Bruce Lee
9/15/21
"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke
9/16/21
"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived, and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often, we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." - John F. Kennedy
9/17/21
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus." - Alexander Graham Bell
9/18/21
"Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things." - Denis Diderot
9/19/21
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
9/20/21
"Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust
9/21/21
"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all." - Emily Dickinson
9/22/21
"Art is the best possible introduction to the culture of the world. I love it for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch. It washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." - Pablo Picasso
9/23/21
"How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children." - Charles Darwin
9/24/21
"Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations." - Desmond Tutu
9/25/21
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future; act now, without delay." - Simone de Beauvoir
9/26/21
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
9/27/21
"There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now." - James Baldwin
9/28/21
"Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions, and gradually over time, their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
9/29/21
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela
9/30/21
"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them, but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight. True education combines intellect, beauty, goodness, and the greatest of these is goodness. When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another." - Helen Keller
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